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Ship Class Notes 3 January United States: Donald McKay: East Boston, Massachusetts: McKay: Clipper: For Black Ball Line. [1] 4 January United Kingdom: Messrs. T. Metcalfe & Sons South Shields: Mary Russell Mitford: Barque: For Messrs. T. Metcalfe & Sons. [2] 4 January United Kingdom: Messrs. Wigram's Poplar: Southern Cross: Missionary ship: For ...
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Age of Sail merchant ships of the United States include merchant ships designed, built, or operated by the United States during the Age of Sail (approximately 1570 to 1860). Business portal Modern history portal
The Fulton, was registered with the ‘’Record of American and Foreign Shipping,’’ from 1858 to 1869. Her ship master was Captain J. A. Wotten; her owners were N.Y & Havre Steam Navigation Company; built in 1855 at New York; and her hailing port was the Port of New York. [7]
The Confederacy, in desperate need of ships, raised Merrimack and rebuilt her as an ironclad ram, according to a design prepared by Lt. John Mercer Brooke, CSN. Commissioned as CSS Virginia 17 February 1862, the ironclad was the hope of the Confederacy to destroy the wooden ships in Hampton Roads , and to end the Union blockade which had ...
John T. Lloyd heavily advertised the book in 1855, promising "The STEAMBOAT DIRECTORY will contain a complete list and description of all the Steamboats now afloat in the Western and Southern waters. The length, model, speed, power and tonnage of each boat, where and by whom built, the name of the boat, with the trade she is in...
It acted as both a cargo ship, carrying close to 10 million pounds of tea between 1870 and 1877, and a training ship, and was known as one of the fastest ships of its time.
The first USS Sabine was a sailing frigate built by the United States Navy in 1855. The ship was among the first ships to see action in the American Civil War. In 1862, a large portion of the USS Monitor crew were volunteers from the Sabine. She was built at the New York Navy Yard. Her keel was laid in 1822, but she was not launched until 3 ...